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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 24, 1910. 
Two Clean Kills 
Y OU know quail — noisy winging: bumble bees! 
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mature growth, which attribute is the more un¬ 
fortunate as the char indulges in cannibalism 
more than any other fish. In this respect it 
comes very near the pike. Its voracity very 
greatly promotes its growth in the first and sec¬ 
ond years, but later it suddenly stops growing 
and fine large fish are seldom seen. 
Its capacity to resist disease, which quality we 
value so highly in the iridetis, is extremely small. 
Bacterial infections, fungus, and intestinal dis¬ 
orders often kill whole stocks, and it is also much 
more liable to furunculosis than is its American 
brother. Besides, the char suffers from a pe¬ 
culiarly special form of petechial affection. This 
manifests itself in irregularly shaped flat defects 
of the surface skin, dull graj r spots with byssus. 
the origin of which has not yet been definitely 
ascertained. This disease has discouraged many 
pisciculturists from continuing to breed the fonti- 
nalis. 
Another circumstance must be mentioned which 
makes the cultivation of the brook char in the 
second year very unprofitable, namely, degenera¬ 
tion of the eggs caused by overfeeding. That the 
brood product of such fish as are artificially fed 
is entirely worthless would be a lesser evil were 
it not also that the fish themselves perish in great 
numbers at the spawning time through over-fat¬ 
tening of the internal organs. It is chiefly the 
spawners that die, as they can not deposit their 
spawn, which is not thoroughly and normally 
matured. The char, moreover, requires special 
qualities and temperature of water. It only 
thrives in hard, clear spring water of even tem¬ 
perature ranging from 42 to ’54 degrees F. The 
risk connected with its fattening rapidly increases 
with rising temperature of water, while if this is 
much below the above-mentioned degrees the 
food taken no longer affords proper nourishment. 
It has often been proposed to rear the char in 
running water, but to this the objection must be 
made that the char would immediately become 
too formidable a competitor of our brook trout 
with regard to feeding; and in all likelihood there 
is hardly a pisciculturist who would be prepared 
to substitute the brook char, which can not be 
disposed of so easily here, for the popular brook 
trout. For these reasons the breeding of the 
brook char has been generally neglected in 
Austria for the last few years, and in some fish¬ 
eries has even been abandoned altogether. 
A promising future appears to lie before the 
purpurata. In growth it develops as rapidly as 
the irideus and it thrives under the same condi¬ 
tions. Its brilliant exterior and slender body, 
similar to that of the brook trout, are advantages 
which must not be underestimated. So far, how¬ 
ever, the purpurata is bred in Austria only in 
isolated fisheries, and it would be premature to¬ 
day to pronounce a definitive decision regarding 
the value of this .beautiful fish to breeders. 
The American black bass, Micropterus sal- 
mcides, is being bred in several pond fisheries 
side by side with carp. The conditions of growth 
are fayoratfie. The objections raised against this 
fish are that it is a great truant and extremely 
sensitive to the effects of muddy water, which 
latter occasions great losses in the clearing out of 
ponds. There is also no great demand for the 
fish, though it is fleshy and palatable, for the pub¬ 
lic show a certain aversion to the disproportion¬ 
ate size of the head, which, in fact, equals a 
quarter of the weight of the whole fish. As the 
fish is tenacious of life, however, it can be easily 
